Friends quotes
496 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend."
"the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars."
"The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so."
"All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much."
"The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career."
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"Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder."
"When someone we love is having difficulty and is giving us a bad time, it's better to explore the cause than to criticize the action."
"Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none."
"I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone."
"Do not allow your thoughts to become greater than you. No matter what your thoughts tell you, don't listen. Remember your thoughts are not your friend. Your thoughts try to confound you, confuse you. And they will tell you all kinds of things. Do not listen to your thoughts, even your good thoughts. Transcend everything, go beyond your thoughts to your bliss, to your joy and to your happiness."
"Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love."
"To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets."
"When people don't want the best for you, they are not the best for you."
""Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile, one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last."
"The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one."
"The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best."
"Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is a question of the first importance for the revolution."
"My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs, but never stay mad for long. I was lucky to find him, he is in every way, my soulmate."
"Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends."
"When you look around at the six people that you spend the most time with, that's who you are. I think that in making those decisions in who you are going to be married to, who your friends are going to be, those are really huge, critical, life decisions. Who gets to talk to you everyday, is almost like the food that you eat. It is a very huge critical situation to choose who the people are that you are spending your life with, spending your time with and who you are choosing to give your love and everything to."
"A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented."
"If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all."
"Until you can see everything in the world as your friend, your work is not done."
"There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self."
"Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints."
